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title: The coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula is bounded on th… — South Africa · tree and pragmatics
description: The coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and the first row of north–south running Cape Fold Mountains to the east. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Africa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Africa, sentence 173

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From Wikipedia, [«South Africa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and the first row of north–south running Cape Fold Mountains to the east.

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**What happens:** bound, run · **To what, where:** coastal belt, west

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Africa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:South_Africa:173
# text = The coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and the first row of north–south running Cape Fold Mountains to the east.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
25	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	south	south	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
29	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	Fold	Fold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | present · passive |  | the coastal belt to the north of the Cape Peninsula |  | the west by the Atlantic Ocean and the first row of north running Cape Mountains to the east |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «South Africa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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